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M. Night to Remember – The Best Shyamalan Movie Moments

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Matt Rodgers on the best M. Night Shyamalan movie moments… With the culmination of his Eastrail 177 trilogy, Glass predicted to break box-office records when it opens later this month, there feels no better time than during this M. Night Shyamalan resurgence to take a look back at the one-time Philly wunderkind’s greatest cinematic moments. Let’s twist again…. […]

Is there a chance that The Punisher could survive Netflix’s Marvel cull?

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Thomas Roach on whether The Punisher could survive Netflix’s Marvel cull… This week we have been given our first proper trailer for Netflix’s The Punisher season 2. Now if you look at all the comments that fans are making about the show, we can assume shortly after the second season debuts on January 18th, it […]

A Beginner’s Guide to Kathryn Bigelow

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In the latest Flickering Myth directors guide, Tom Jolliffe looks at Kathryn Bigelow… In a male dominated field, Kathryn Bigelow has risen up from being a cult genre film director, stepping out of the shadow of James Cameron (her former husband) and re-inventing herself in the last decade as one of the best directors in […]

Why Dirty Sci-Fi Is The Best Sci-Fi

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This week Neil Calloway argues that one thing unites all the best science fiction… Guardians of the Galaxy, the original Star Wars movies, Alien, and Firefly all have something in common. The obvious thing is that they’re all science fiction, but if I was just listing sci-fi surely I’d have included Star Trek, too. They’re […]

Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2018

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Flickering Myth’s writing team present our top ten movies of 2018… As 2018 draws to a close, the writers here at Flickering Myth have been looking back over another twelve months of cinema to vote on our favourite movies of the year. As always, our writers have shared their personal top ten picks, which we’ve […]

The Top 15 Video Games of 2018

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Shaun Munro on the top 15 video games of 2018… Time sure flies, doesn’t it? It seemed like yesterday that Red Dead Redemption 2 was still forever away and people thought that Bethesda wasn’t capable of releasing one of the year’s worst video games. 2018 has come and gone, then, and following the incredible momentum of 2017, […]

The Best Movie Action Sequences of 2018

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Harrison Abbott on the best movie action sequences of 2018… About a week ago, I wrote an article ranking the Worst Action Sequences of 2018 and the reception to it was contentious to say the least. A few readers apparently emerged from the piece under the impression that I don’t like ‘’fun’’, or that I […]

The Best New TV Shows of 2018

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Samuel Brace on the best new TV shows of 2018… Continuing our countdown to 2018’s end, the next article in our TV ‘best of’ series – following on from the ‘best TV moments of 2018’ and ‘best TV characters of 2018’ – focuses on the best new TV shows to come to our screens across […]

The Best TV Characters of 2018

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Samuel Brace on the best TV characters of 2018… Continuing our countdown to 2018’s end, and following on from last week’s roundup of ‘The best TV moments of 2018’, today we are going to dive into the best characters that have populated the small screen this calendar year, highlighting a selection of vibrant, complex characters […]